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On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 05:34:56PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> Doesn't everyone who uses atomic operations knows that they are expensive? 
> :)

Yes, though hopefully they should at least be faster than using a
mutex, though for cmpxchg8b it sounds like that may not necessarily be
the case...

Craig